Cinthia Murphy

Cinthia Murphy is managing editor of ETF.com, specializing in all things ETFs. Her experience includes time at Dow Jones and former BridgeNews, covering commodity futures markets in Chicago and Brazil equities in Sao Paulo. Murphy has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Nasdaq OMX Group, one of the most widely watched index providers globally, launched five indexes that track correlation between individual stocks and ETFs in a way it says can help investors capture returns even when the market is down.

The Nasdaq OMX Alpha Indexes measure the relative performance of a single stock or ETF against another single stock or leading ETF, which serves as benchmark, allowing investors to adjust their portfolios to reflect that focused performance.

Russell Investments indexes signed an agreement with the Saudi Stock Exchange, Tadawul, that would give it access to prices and other data that would enable it to create equity indexes that track performance of companies in the Middle East. Terms weren’t disclosed.

Less than a month ago, U.S. Commodity Funds acquired licenses for SummerHaven’s metals and agriculture benchmarks, in a move the company characterized as an effort to expand its roster of commodities funds beyond single-commodity ETFs.